One of those spur
of the moment things…Receive notification email about the fair one day, when
merry on wine a smartphone on hand and pronto a cheap EasyJet return flight
with a 6am departure is booked…
Hoorn is a picturesque Dutch town north of
Amsterdam on the shores of the Ijsselmeer lake (well it used to be the North
Sea, but those crafty Dutch subjugated it). Once a year the Utrecht record fair
people (who also have record shop Dropstyle) organise an outdoor fair that
curls around the City centre with over 75 dealers in tow.
There was a good turn out of dealers, with some Utrecht regulars along with more
opportunist dealers. I must have gone up and down the fair 3 times, and
although mainly Dutch dealers, there was an abundance and a good variety of
items and mainly on vinyl. So the catches, some great new discoveries
including…
The phased out
Heavy Psych of The Sub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV0f3Fls6zg
Belgium’s Mustang
and Melrose Abbey with a couple of killer Boogie work outs
Small Fat Jim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wgZmPwjj4
Another great one
is Holland’s Gallery with The Problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUxhcy5KCcE
More Lowland
heaviness with Jeronimo’s No No No
No sound clip, but
the crunching Heavy Boogie of the Crunching She Rolls by Pluto is also pretty
cool
And the rest of the
bunch? Of particular note is the late (Dave Allen and) The Arrows exercise in
heaviness with Little Big Horn
And 1 LP. The Dutch issue of the second Sir Lord Baltimore
LP. Although an uneven affair that pales next to their first outing, it
features a wonderful one-off cover that better fits the band
Anyhow it was a fun
day trip, felt pretty knackered coming back. Would I return? Yes, but more
likely as part of a record shopping trip checking out other shops in Holland
and Belgium. As proved here, there are more lowland lowlife 45s to be found.
3 comments:
Love that Cole Younger
Hi Robin,
I wondered if you've ever come across this 45 on your travels;
http://www.discogs.com/Baishin-The-End-Of-A-Beginning/release/6585062
I read somewhere that it's a good 2-sider and maybe your kind of thing
Don't know the Baishin. It has been described as "epic" and has organ, ,so don't know...
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